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Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Coco Gauff
reaches
Karla Umana
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings20August 25, 2008 — June 21, 2010View Venus Williams × Rossana De Los Rios →03 BridgeOpen career →Rossana De Los Rios
1 meeting10April 12, 1994View Rossana De Los Rios × Ingrid Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Ingrid Gonzalez
1 meeting10May 1, 1998View Ingrid Gonzalez × Maria Fernanda Carrillo →05 BridgeOpen career →Maria Fernanda Carrillo
1 meeting10April 28, 1998View Maria Fernanda Carrillo × Karla Umana →06 DestinationOpen career →Karla Umana
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- DestinationKarla Umana
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- DestinationKarla Umana
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- DestinationKarla Umana
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- DestinationKarla Umana
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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